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Did anyone see Ms Pluncket’s interview with Rebecca Curtis?
I like Alice, but she comes up with stuff that would be seen as sexist/not tolerated if she were a male presenter. If interviewing a woman she seems to (metaphorically) pat them on the head and say "aren’t you doing a good job for a girl. Oh, you’ve got two kids and still finding time to train horses, and look good at the same time". Am always waiting for the question, "When do you do the housework"?
Does she not know these days a man can do the housework and look after the kids, just as well as a woman? She’s the head of a team and delegates.
Training horses is no more difficult for a woman than a man IF given the opportunity. Admittedly they are not always given that opportunity. Alice’s line of questioning seems to suggest it IS more difficult for women. Therefore, if that were true, then owners would be quite justified NOT chosing a trainer on the sole grounds that she is FEMALE!
How would that go down with Alice?
If presenters concentrated on the horses and not gender, then any trainer – male OR female – will get the compliments/rewards they deserve.
Value Is EverythingYes, made me wince a bit too. Alice said something like "you do all this and you’re a mum too!"
A shiny penny to anyone who identifies a time when anyone has ever said to a male trainer "you do all this and you’re a dad too!"
Women have to do better than men to be equal to them; always has been like that and always will be.
Women have to do better than men to be equal to them; always has been like that and always will be.
Sexist!
Value Is EverythingNot the first time, she needs a good kick up the backside.
Say what you were going to say Eddie…
Alice deserves a good spanking!Value Is EverythingKeep imagining Alice saying to Venetia ‘and you’ve now got to go home and do the washing up as well’. To be fair to Alice [who I think is lovely] she only said it cause she has to do that sort of juggling as well, although it wouldn’t surprise me if Alice has nannies and cleaners and Rebecca does it all herself ..[look at me; I’m typing AND drinking a cup of tea at the same time; bet you blokes can’t do that…]
Keep imagining Alice saying to Venetia ‘and you’ve now got to go home and do the washing up as well’. To be fair to Alice [who I think is lovely] she only said it cause she has to do that sort of juggling as well, although it wouldn’t surprise me if Alice has nannies and cleaners and Rebecca does it all herself ..[look at me; I’m typing AND drinking a cup of tea at the same time; bet you blokes can’t do that…]
Strange, how if a man were to say men were better at anything than women – he’d be shot down in flames. Women are better at wearing boots.
Don’t mean to be getting at Alice, I too think she’s "lu-u-u-vely". Well, in truth a bit more than that after seeing her at Newbury
in boots!
Value Is EverythingEvery interview with Rosie Napravnik (an excellent jockey who happens to be female) is cringeworthy. I can almost excuse it when the TV network is trying to come up with human interest stories for the Kentucky Derby broadcast, but that 60 minutes interview last year…yikes.
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